Columbia County police are looking for four men they say broke into an Evans restaurant early Monday.

The manager of Rhineharts Oyster Bar at 303 N. Belair Road told deputies that someone kicked open the back door of the restaurant just after midnight, according to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

The manager said nothing appeared to be missing, though the men searched the entire business. The restaurant has several surveillance cameras and the incident was recorded.

A Grovetown woman was seriously injured Thursday afternoon when she rolled her minivan into a gulley.

Kathleen May Collins, 64, of Senators Ridge, was transported to the Georgia Regents Medical Center with a head injury that didn’t appear to be life-threatening.

Collins was driving east on Sugarcreek Drive at about 2:20 p.m. when she didn’t follow a curve in the road and her Dodge Caravan went onto the right shoulder, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Deputy Mark Smith. Collins’ van turned sideways, hit a creek bed and rolled over.

The owner of a Martinez electronics store was arrested Thursday, and Columbia County authorities are looking for people who believe they’ve been duped by him.

Perry Clark Bower, 54, is owner of Electric Medic at 3850 Washington Road, Suite 5-B, near West Town shopping center. He was charged with two counts of theft by deception. He was released from the Columbia County Detention Center after posting a $3,200 bond, according to jail records.

No one was injured after an SUV flipped into a gulley in Evans Tuesday morning.

Samuel Eugene Tyson Jr., 63, of Williams Street in Augusta, was driving his Chevrolet Tahoe on a private road next to Brown’s Feed and Seed in Evans at about 8:40 a.m. The right tires hit the soft, unstable dirt on the edge of the road. The shoulder gave way and the Tahoe rolled down the embankment, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Deputy Keith Warner.

Columbia County authorities are trying to identify two men they say shoplifted from the Evans Walmart store in December.

An asset protection employee at the store on Washington Road said that two men came into the store at about noon on Dec. 9, according to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident report. The employee said the men came into the store together and loaded a shopping cart with a 30-pack of Budweiser beer and a 30-pack of Bud Light, worth more than $200, a Keurig coffee maker worth $198 and a $15 hand mixer.

Concerns over extreme low temperatures has prompted Columbia County officials to delay the opening of schools by two hours Tuesday morning.

School officials issued a press release today announcing the delay, which cited National Weather Service advisories that forecast temperatures in the low teens and a wind chill that push the effective temperature to near zero.

Officials said children should arrive at their schools or bus stops two hours later than normal Tuesday and urged parents to dress children appropriately for the cold weather.